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Data center colocation (or "colo") providers ==**rent physical space, power, cooling, and network connectivity** to businesses that want to host their own server hardware in a secure, enterprise-grade facility==. Instead of building an expensive private data center, you retain complete ownership and configuration control over your servers while outsourcing the heavy facilities management